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SILVER v. MOHASCO CORP.

No. 1112, Docket 78-7595.

602 F.2d 1083 (1979)

Ralph H. SILVER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MOHASCO CORPORATION, Edward Curren, Raymond Greenhill, Frederick Woller, Herbert Brown and James Cullen, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan I. Blackman, New York City, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas Mead Santoro, Albany, N. Y. (Bouck Holloway & Kiernan, Francis J. Holloway, Albany, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Raj K. Gupta, Washington, D. C., for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, amicus curiae.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

In this case, in which we are called upon to interpret Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., Learned Hand's admonition is particularly appropriate:

There is no surer guide in the interpretation of a statute than its purpose when that is sufficiently disclosed; nor any surer mark of over solicitude for the letter than to wince at carrying out that purpose because the words used do not formally...

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